Creating my first Tableau web data connector : part 3

At last, the final part of the trials and tribulations of creating my first Tableau Web Data Connector... Part 1 went through the pre-requisites, and building what I might generously term my "user interface". Part 2 was a struggle against the forces of web security. And in this part, we battle against the data itself, until the error-message … Continue reading Creating my first Tableau web data connector : part 3 →

Creating my first Tableau web data connector – part 2

Now for the next part of the creating-a-web-data-connector journey: previously, I had got all the software I needed to create a web data connector installed (well, to be fair Notepad comes with Windows so that wasn't hard) and designed my user interface. Now it was time to move on to Tableau tutorial section 5 - … Continue reading Creating my first Tableau web data connector – part 2 →

The Tableau #MakeoverMonday doesn’t need to be complicated

For a while, a couple of key members of the insatiably effervescent Tableau community, Andy Cotgreave and Andy Kriebel, have been running a "Makeover Monday" activity. Read more and get involved here - but a simplistic summary would be that they distribute a nicely processed dataset on a topic of the day that relates to someone else's existing visualisation, and all the rest … Continue reading The Tableau #MakeoverMonday doesn’t need to be complicated →